These garden favorites can multiply into free plants for spring if you act now, but waiting just a few more weeks means ...

If there's one thing we learned from The Secret Garden, it's this: showing your outdoor space some TLC when it's cold and grey outside is the best way to ensure it thrives come springtime. And what ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

Planting annual flowers can be a frustrating endeavor: You spend a lot of money (either on seeds or starts) and invest all that time in planting, just to watch them die at the end of the season.

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

(Mass Appeal) – Plants, depending on what you’re growing, can be pricey. But we all want a bountiful garden with color and growth. Before you go to the garden centers, think about what you already ...

Why buy more plants when the ones you already have are perfectly capable of making new ones for you? There are tons of stunning flowers that are easy to propagate from cuttings, including geraniums ...

The best way to propagate buddleias is from semi-ripe stemcuttings, which can be taken now. Choose a straight shoot with no flowers and cut a section 30-60cm (1-2ft) long. Place in a polythene bag.

Starting plants from cuttings is a time-honored method of propagating (making new plants) that’s back in vogue now that house plants are all the rage. And many of the plants we grow as annuals in the ...